UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Russia: "Fear has replaced the rule of law" The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia, Mariana Katzrova, presented the report on human rights in Russia to the UN General Assembly. As of September of this year, 4,968 people were persecuted in Russia for political reasons, of which 2,178 are in prison. Katzrova called on Moscow to stop labeling critics of the regime from home and abroad as "traitors to the motherland" and to persecute them.

UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Russia: "Fear has replaced the rule of law" The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia, Mariana Katzrova, presented the report on human rights in Russia to the UN General Assembly. As of September of this year, 4,968 people were persecuted in Russia for political reasons, of which 2,178 are in prison. Katzrova called on Moscow to stop labeling critics of the regime from home and abroad as "traitors to the motherland" and to persecute them.